BUSINESS VOCABULARY Cambridge esl

Ok, this is not an activity for survival students. It is very difficult. however, it is very useful for students in Upper waystage and above and for students who want to learn English for use at work. 

The website is designed by Cambridge ESL. It is very good and very interactive. It is a little complicated to use, but it is worth it. You should:

1. Choose a unit
2. Click on each word to see the definition (In Enlgish)
3. Click on the button 'Presentation'
4. Drag and drop the vocabulary into the box with the correct definition.

It is a really good activity and we really recommend it. http://cdextras.cambridge.org/VocabTrainer/bbav/index.htm

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

In my last blog entry, we used englishformyjob about travel and tourism. This article is exactly the same, but it focuses on food and restaurants:

http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-restaurant1.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-restaurant2.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-foodbeverage3.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-foodbeverage4.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-foodbeverage5.html

TRAVEL & TOURISM englishformyjob

The website englishformyjob is great for practical vocabulary exercises. I love it because it uses lots of pictures that makes it a very communicative way to learn. here are some good ones for your holidays if you need to speak some English:

http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-traveltourism2.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-traveltourism1.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-traveltourism3.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-traveltourism4.html
http://www.englishformyjob.com/visual-english-traveltourism5.html

The activities are very simple. All you need to do is look at the pictures, look at the list of vocabulary and type your answers in the gaps!

MOVIES FOR LISTENING learnenglishfeelgood

So far, most of the blogs I have written on placestolearn.com have been focused on practicing grammar and vocabulary. I decided now to try something different and to give you some good listening practice. I visited the website learnenglishfeelfood and founs ome great activities. It shows small clips of movies and then asks you to answer questions about each one. 

The clips are short and not too complicated, so they are nice and easy top understand. It is a good way to practice using some real-life English

GREAT GATSBY 
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip9.html

AWAY WE GO 
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip8.html

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY 
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip2.html

THE AVENGERS 
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip11.html

ADVENTURELAND 
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip15.html

I hope you like these.

SHOULD Englishgrammarsecrets

This is an activity that practices a relatively simple piece of grammar "Should". It is from the excellent site englishgrammarsecrets. 


EXERCISE 1
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/should/exercise1.swf
This activity practices using should in context. You have to match the situation/problem with the advice using you should. 


EXERCISE 2
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/should/exercise2.swf
This is also a very simple activity. It is to practice whether you need to use the positive or negative form of should.


EXERCISE 3
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/should/exercise3.swf
This activity is to practice the form of should. You are given some words and you must put them in the correct order.

PASSIVE VOICE Englishgrammarsecrets

This is a great article for UW and Threshold students. it practices the Passive Voice, which is a particularly difficult piece of grammar.


EXERCISE 1
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/passive/exercise1.html
This activity practives differentiating between the passive voice and the active voice. It is not so difficult, but it helps you to see the difference between the two structures.


EXERCISE 2
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/passive/exercise2.html
This is a simple mix and match activity. It gives you a chance to practice the passive voice in context. You must mtch two halves of sentences together


EXERCISE 3
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/passive/exercise3.html
This activity is to help you practice the correct structure of the passive voice. You must put the words you are given in the correct order.


I hope you like these and they help you with the passive voice.

PAST PERFECT Englishgrammarsecrets

This is an activity that is designed for Upper Waystage students and above. It is to practice the Past Perfect. I have taken some exercises from the excellent site Englishgrammarsecrets. 

EXERCISE 1
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastperfect/exercise1.html
This exercise is a mix and match exercise. You have to match a sentence that uses the past simple aith a sentence that uses the past perfect. This is a great exercise to demonstrate two things:

1. The structure of the past perfect - we often use it with the past simple
2. The reason we use it, to explain how two actions in the past link together

EXERCISE 2

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastperfect/exercise2.html

This is a very modern and technological activity. However, the objective is simple, you just need to put the sentences using the past perfect in the correct order.

EXERCISE 3

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastperfect/exercise3.html

This activity is very much like activity 1, but it also uses the past perfect in contracted form.

EXERCISE 4

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastperfect/exercise4.html

This activity is a very simple one, you just have to fill in the gaps. it is a good way to practice using the past perfect in context. You need to look at the sentence and see which verb goes where.

EXERCISE 5 

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastperfect/exercise5.html

This one is a little more difficult because you have to fill in the gaps, but you also have to write in the correct answer, so it involves a little more throught

If you do all of these activities it will give you a far better understanding of the Past Perfect.